Description

This is a 4-day course that covers the emerging Ajax technology, with a focus on developing Ajax applications using Java on the server side. The course starts with a fairly comprehensive coverage of basic JavaScript. The coverage includes some of the techniques for creating modules and doing Object-Oriented style programming in JavaScript, because Ajax uses JavaScript so heavily, and it's important that developers have some idea of how to write good JavaScript. This is not a thorough coverage of JavaScript - that is beyond the scope of the course. Students have enough so that they can write Ajax programs using JavaScript, and have some good foundations for doing it well. The course moves on to basic server side techniques for handling Ajax requests. Starting with a simple servlet, and then moving on to a Servlet/JSP combination. Then we go back to the client side to cover some of the major libraries that are in use today. Several libraries are represented, but your favorite may not be there due to time constraints. Detailed coverage of Dojo is not included because it's only just recently stabilized. The course then moves on to more advanced techniques using JSON, XML, Direct Web Remoting, and JSF to create Ajax based Web applications. This takes the student to the next level in writing Ajax applications. Finally some general design and security issues are covered.